Ohhh I love him. I'd really love to amass a collection of preserved specimens. (In the name of science of course!) I for one would love a giant deep sea isopod... Oh boy what a thought.

Swimmy, haha, such a cute name

I like this little fellow! Must be something quite interesting to own indeed.

Too bad his body is kind of twisted.

Holy shit. I didn't know anybody but me and a few other weirdos who even knew WTf a "pickled punk" was... Mister, we gotta be related... *chuckle* Too cool. Damn, you must have the coolest space.

Heh, I used to use pickledpunk as a screen names (even wrote a play called "Pickled Punks" for a class in college).

Coolness... It's such a fun name, and the critters in the bottles are just whacked. I love 'em.

What was your tale about? "Pickled Punks" is a neat title.

I recall a story by Ray Bradbury called "The Jar"- about a hillbilly who gains status by buying a pickled punk from a traveling side-show. He has these get-togethers where the rubes come over to his house to gaze on the thing and speculate on what it was, where it came from and the like. The lonely man grows to love the new popularity the punk is giving him, something he'd never had before, but is unsure as to how to deal with the problems it also brings... You might find it interesting, as a pickled punk is a pivotal item. Bradbury wrote it in the fifties, and it was part of a collection called The October Country.

I'll have to look that Bradbury up, sounds right up my alley.

My story was about a boy who falls in love with the circus's bearded lady, not realizing she's actually a lady, and joins the circus as the resident geek just to be close to her. It's a love story, y'see.

That sounds awesome... I enjoy love-stories from the odd side of Force. *grins*